Why Do You Need Multiple QA Environments?

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Why Do You Need Multiple QA
Environments?
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• When it comes to budget allocations in IT
  companies and enterprises, the responsibility of
  the test environment managers increases as they
  have to audit almost everything to ensure that
  the right budget allocation is done and the
  maximum resource utilisation is done too.
• Test environment management personnel always find
  opportunities to reallocate budgets where there
  is the need. For example, when CTOs and CEOs find
  out that more budget allocation is done on
  expensive hardware, they ask the managers to
  scrutinize spend when resources are limited.
• Earlier, when it comes to allocating resources
  for QA and testing, test environment managers
  would make spreadsheets and ask the environment
  engineers and development teams to fill up the
  details in the spreadsheet related to their
  resources in QA and testing departments.
• However, technology has revolutionized the entire
  scenario as there are adopted tools that can be
  used to automate the environment inventory
  creation. A test environment management tool can
  bring convenience, comfort and reliability to the
  system and in addition to that, it is also fast,
  accurate and saves time and efforts. 
• However, a parallel discussion you must have
  heard in the environment teams about the
  requirements of QA environments per project.
  There are some projects which might have one QA
  environment and some might have four or five.
  This post will discuss in detail about QA test
  environments and what is the need for multiple QA
  environments for projects?

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Types of test environments There are
many test environment types we can discuss in
real-time, but in general, there are mainly three
types of test environments organizations mostly
use Development Environment  This environment
is used by the developers and it involves
developers' machines too. Most of the time,
developers use this environment for unit test
their code before sending it to the next
stage.  QA/Testing Environment  This
environment is used by QA analysts, testers and
other test professionals for functional and
non-functional testing such as end-to-end
testing, load testing, integration testing and
other testing tasks.
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Staging Environment Considered as a close copy
of the production environment which helps teams
to verify that whether the application will
function properly and accurately before its
deployment or not.  Why do you need multiple QA
environments?  Because teams work on parallel
development efforts  For example, a development
team has added a feature to a product and when it
is done, a QA team will test and validate the
feature. However, when the testing is going on,
the development team wants to move on to the next
stage, but it needs to wait until the QA guys are
done testing the feature. However, if there are
multiple QA environments in the facility, the
development team won't have to wait and they can
easily move on to the next stage. Long term
projects require a dedicated testing
environment  If you have a dedicated team
working on a big project that requires months of
development and design work, it is evident that
the QA team would also be occupied for months to
test all the features developed by the
developers. In such a scenario, you will require
an isolated QA testing environment that is
dedicated to the project while other QA
environments are used for other projects.
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Systems that depend on services When developers
develop code that depends on backend services
which are being modified by independent
development teams, they might require multiple
environments which must be configured to connect
to the appropriate testing service. For
end-to-end testing to be performed, several QA
environments are needed. How many QA
environments per project? 
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Well, it will depend on the allocation of the
test environments by the test environment
management personnel. However, no rulebook
defines the number of QA environments required
for any project, but when you are working on
projects that support critical, customer-facing
applications need more test environments. When
it comes to managing multiple QA environments,
you cannot do it without the test environment
management tool. The tool is comprehensive and
will help you to get all the details related to
the strategic allocation of resources,
project-wise allocations, challenges and other
crucial information related to environments.
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